How to Turn a Page as Complicatedly as Possible [Video]

books Joseph Herscher reading Rube Goldberg Machine

by James Plafke | 5:17 pm, January 11th, 2012

Joseph Herscher faces a pretty difficult issue in the morning, he needs the page of his newspaper turned, but he’s way too busy drinking coffee. His free hand is busy holding a string, which sets off a ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine that eventually turns his page. Granted, he probably could’ve just turned the page with the hand that is holding the string, but if it wasn’t holding the string-trigger to the page-turning Rube Goldberg machine, how else would the page get turned?

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